Arjun Sivasundar

Arjun was the first masters student to graduate from the lab (co-advised by Dr. Ortí and Dr. Ballinger). He graduated in July 2000 and we named a PCR machine after him. He is now a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University. His thesis work involved two projects

The phylogeny of the Serrasalminae (piranhas) (abstract)

Phylogeography of a group of South American freshwater fishes (genus Prochilodus) (Sivasundar et al 2001)

Publications from past work:

• A. Sivasundar and K.V. Devi Prasad. 1996. Placement and predation of nests in leatherback sea turtles in the Andaman Islands, India. Hamadryad 21:36-42. (full text)
• S. Shetty and Sivasundar, A. 1998. Using passive integrated transponders to study the ecology of Laticauda colubrina. Hamadryad. 23(1):71-76.).

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A few links to some stuff that Arjun likes:

• Sea turtles: www.seaturtle.org is a nice site with links to dozens of other sites; the Students' Sea Turtle Conservation Network in Chennai (Madras), India
• Crossword puzzles: Guardian Unlimited crossword (the quick is easy, the cryptic is tough and the "quiptic" is cool); a great list of crossword links is here
• Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: CSNY's official site; another nice CSN site
• Led Zeppelin: Bron-Yr-Aur; Electric Magic
• Cricket: Cricinfo
• Formula One: Gale Force
• News: Times of India; BBC online